Parent Café

You are welcome to come to the parent café (a café on wheels at the moment) in the junior school every Tuesday morning 8:30am to have a cuppa and chat.  Most weeks it is staffed by Mr Spence (Guidance Officer), Ms Ainsworth (P-2 Inclusion & EAL/D) and myself. Next Tuesday, we will be joined by Mrs Cowie (Librarian/STEM/IT HOC) and the following Tuesday will be Mrs Wise (Yr 5-6 Inclusion). That’s a lot of interesting people to inspire some great conversation!

Conversations

Speaking about conversation, I love to have a chat and find it easy to talk (which is really important in my job!), but not everyone is like me.  Engaging in conversation with our kids can be exceptionally difficult at times, so here are some useful tips…

• When your child comes to you to talk, where possible give them your undivided attention by stopping what you are doing and looking at them while they speak
• Allow your child to finish talking before responding or even cutting them short helping them to find their voice and be heard 
• Look for body language that might give you clues about how your child might be feeling and follow up on it with a question
• Spend time each day talking about the little things that aren’t so important, so that they can be comfortable sharing the bigger things
• Ask open-ended questions to invite a larger story, not “how was school?” but, “what was the best thing that happened today?”
• Encourage everyone in the family to take turns and share about their day at dinner or breakfast, or while driving in the car
• Role model positive communication skills, and include your children in conversations where possible e.g. What do you think about it?

Let me know how you go with this. I’m happy to chat about it!

Coming up

13/6 Sub and Drink Deal Lunch

29/7 Chappy’s Movie Night

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